Open Letter

Author : Charb,
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316311340
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Letter written by Charb, and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned defense of the freedom of speech, from Stéphane Charbonnier, a journalist murdered for his convictions On January 7, 2015, two gunmen stormed the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They took the lives of twelve men and women, but they called for one man by name: "Charb." Known by his pen name, Stéphane Charbonnier was editor in chief of Charlie Hebdo, an outspoken critic of religious fundamentalism, and a renowned political cartoonist in his own right. In the past, he had received death threats and had even earned a place on Al Qaeda's "Most Wanted List." On January 7 it seemed that Charb's enemies had finally succeeded in silencing him. But in a twist of fate befitting Charb's defiant nature, it was soon revealed that he had finished a book just two days before his murder on the very issues at the heart of the attacks: blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the necessary courage of satirists. Here, published for the first time in English, is Charb's final work. A searing criticism of hypocrisy and racism, and a rousing, eloquent defense of free speech, Open Letter shows Charb's words to be as powerful and provocative as his art. This is an essential book about race, religion, the voice of ethnic minorities and majorities in a pluralistic society, and above all, the right to free expression and the surprising challenges being leveled at it in our fraught and dangerous time.

Author : Bill Konigsberg
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338325051
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridge written by Bill Konigsberg and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two teenagers, strangers to each other, have decided to jump from the same bridge at the same time. But what results is far from straightforward in this absorbing, honest lifesaver from acclaimed author Bill Konigsberg. Aaron and Tillie don't know each other, but they are both feeling suicidal, and arrive at the George Washington Bridge at the same time, intending to jump. Aaron is a gay misfit struggling with depression and loneliness. Tillie isn't sure what her problem is -- only that she will never be good enough.On the bridge, there are four things that could happen:Aaron jumps and Tillie doesn't.Tillie jumps and Aaron doesn't.They both jump.Neither of them jumps.Or maybe all four things happen, in this astonishing and insightful novel from Bill Konigsberg.

Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375726349
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Stain written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers “a master novelist's haunting parable about our troubled modern moment" (The Wall Street Journal). It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished even his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret, one which has been kept for fifty years from his wife, his four children, his colleagues, and his friends, including the writer Nathan Zuckerman. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. And to understand also how Silk's astonishing private history is, in the words of The Wall Street Journal, "magnificently" interwoven with "the larger public history of modern America."

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571165216
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Letters written by Václav Havel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually everything Vaclav Havel has ever written has acquired a new resonance, whether ironic, artistic, philosophical or political, since he became President of his country in 1989. This selection of his prose ranges in time from the early 1960s to his New Year message of 1990.

Author : Mercè Rodoreda
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824119
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in Spring written by Mercè Rodoreda and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merce Rodoreda depicts the story of the bizarre and destructive customs of a nameless town-burying the dead in trees after filling their mouths with cement to prevent their soul from escaping, or sending a man to swim in the river that courses underneath the town to discover if they will be washed away by a flood-through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old boy who must come to terms with the rhyme and reason of this ritual violence, and with his wild, child-like, and teenaged stepmother, who becomes his playmate.

Author : Guðbergur Bergsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940953601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tómas Jónsson written by Guðbergur Bergsson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired, senile bank clerk confined to his basement apartment, Tomas Jonsson decides that, since memoirs are all the rage, he's going to write his own - a sure bestseller - that will also right the wrongs of contemporary Icelandic society. Egoistic, cranky, and digressive, Tomas blasts away while relating pick-up techniques, meditations on chamber pot use, ways to assign monetary value to noise pollution, and much more. His rants parody and subvert the idea of the memoir - something that's as relevant today in our memoir-obsessed society as it was when the novel was first published.

Author : Marcel Lefebvre
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852440476
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Open Letter to Confused Catholics written by Marcel Lefebvre and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1986 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wojciech Nowicki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940953588
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Salki written by Wojciech Nowicki and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying in bed in Gotland after a writer's conference, thinking about his compulsive desire to travel - and the uncomfortable tensions this desire creates - the narrator of Salki starts recounting tragic stories of his family's past, detailing their lives, struggles, and fears in twentieth-century Eastern Europe. In these pieces, he investigates various 'salkis' - attic rooms where memories and memorabilia are stored - real and metaphorical, investigating old documents to better understand the violence of recent times.

Author : Angela Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178478771X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If They Come in the Morning ... written by Angela Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With race and the police once more burning issues, this classic work from one of America’s giants of black radicalism has lost none of its prescience or power The trial of Angela Davis is remembered as one of America’s most historic political trials, and no one can tell the story better than Davis herself. Opening with a letter from James Baldwin to Angela, and including contributions from numerous radicals and commentators such as Black Panthers George Jackson, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Erica Huggins, this book is not only an account of Davis’s incarceration and the struggles surrounding it, but also perhaps the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the prison system of the United States and the figure embodied in Davis’s arrest and imprisonment—the political prisoner. Since the book was written, the carceral system in the US has grown from strength to strength, with more of its black population behind bars than ever before. The scathing analysis of the role of prison and the policing of black populations offered by Davis and her comrades in this astonishing volume remains as relevant today as the day it was published.

Author : Michal Ben-Naftali
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948830072
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Teacher written by Michal Ben-Naftali and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on true events, the story of a Holocaust survivor who spent her life trying to disappear.